Fantasy Football Start em, Sit em: Jalen McMillan, Cade Otton, Caleb Williams (Week 8)

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Let’s take a look at some polarizing players and the advice of fantasy football expert Derek Brown. And for all of DBro’s fantasy football prospects, check out this week’s Fantasy Football Primer.

Fantasy football starting and sit-em lineup tips

Jalen McMillan (WR)

Everyone is speculating about who will line up where in this new-look Bucs passing attack. Well, here goes nothing. I don’t know if McMillan’s role as an outside receiver changes much this season with the change in receivers. He has played 71% of his snaps at the rim this season, and in the fourth quarter of last week’s game he played 80% of his snaps at the rim. I could easily be wrong here, or the Bucs could move all three players around in the lineup, but for now my expectation is that McMillan will remain an outside receiver, so that’s how I’m approaching his Week 8 prospects. McMillan will take on a larger role in the future, but it’s worth questioning how effective he will be in this increased role. McMillan had a target share of 7.1%, a YPRR of 0.70 and a first read share of 7%. He ranks 89th in separation score among 109 qualified receivers. McMillan has five deep targets and a red zone look this season. If possible, I’ll sit with McMillan this week to see how this guard reshuffle works. Atlanta has allowed the second-most PPR points per target to perimeter wide receivers while ranking 19th in receiving yards allowed per game. The matchup is good. So if you’re willing to take the risk and find yourself in a flex situation for Week 8, I’ll put him in a lineup.

Cade Otton (TE)

Otton will likely get the biggest boost in the passing game with Chris Godwin and Mike Evans out. Since Week 3, he has been the TE9 in fantasy points per game, posting an 18.9% target share with a 1.68 YPRR and a 17.5% first read rate. Otton has seven red zone targets in his last six games. He’s a strong TE1 this week with a mediocre matchup against Atlanta, which ranks 16th in receiving yards and 14th in fantasy points per game allowed to tight ends.

Caleb Williams (QB)

Williams has been a QB1 in each of his last two starts (QB6, QB1). The talented rookie signal-caller appears to have turned things around since Week 3. As of Week 3, he ranks seventh among 37 qualifying quarterbacks in yards per attempt, ninth in CPOE, 12th in high-accuracy throw rate and 11th in fantasy points per attempt rebound. He should continue the feel-good streak in Week 8 against Washington. The Commanders have allowed the fourth-highest success rate per dropback, the seventh-highest yards per attempt, the third-highest passer rating and the ninth-highest CPOE.

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